BIGRIG

I don’t care how anybody got their trip. As long as you turn off your hot mic when you aren’t talking. I don’t want to listen to you sip your drink, eat your lunch, sniff your runny nose, answer jeopardy questions, or mouth breath you slob. 4 days of you breathing in my ear gets old real quick. Only 23 more years.

slammer1906

I have no problem reaching over and turning their mic off...lol

BIGRIG

I do the same thing, but some clowns get confused and turn the thing back on when they realize they just coughed and couldn’t hear themselves.

ZapBrannigan

AMEN!!! (filler)

Proximity

What's the deal with the setup where you have the Bose consumer headset and then that mic attachement deal..so much noise in the intercom.

e6bpilot

Its actually the quietest of all the headsets if you use it correctly. The problem is that it has a "mic gain" adjustment on the side of the volume controller, but idiots turn it all the way up. I have mine turned all the way down. I admittedly have a loud baritone voice, but have no issues with the gain at min level communicating with anybody. Besides that, above 10k and without anything to talk about, I turn the hot mic off unlike a lot of the savages I fly with.
There was one captain in a certain south Texas base who I won't fly with again it was so bad. Yes, I would turn it off, but he would turn it back on. Anybody who lacks self awareness like that, I have no time for.

Back to the uFly, most dudes don't read the instructions (we are dudes after all) and just plug it in and go. You can't hear your own static very well on the ICS. Try telling them that their headset is really loud and point out the gain knob on the side of the little volume box. For really old ones that use the old Bose headsets, it's a screw on the back. The reason that it is there is for planes with a vox activated ICS. We don't have one so it should be turned all the way down that way the other guy can control the volume of your voice.

BIGRIG

There’s a clown from the CAB in Chicago who sniffs his nose constantly in the hot mic. When he’s not sniffing his nose, he’s busy defending the garbage hotels we stay in like the San Diego Holiday Inn Bayside. He’s all about himself so even if he’s aware that he’s doing it, he wouldn’t care.

RJSAviator76

Believe me, plenty of that in the right seat as well... I turn mine off, but I won't even reach across to turn theirs off... I'll just turn the flight intercom volume down on my panel.

Tenacvols

Not sure what the big deal is, I ask the guy to turn off his hot mike. I've never had somebody say no...

mulcher

Seriuosly or turn your volume knob off. I did that with a mouth breathing gum chewing slob CA. Everytime he would say something I would respond sorry I turn my volume off so I dont hear you. He never clued in. A toolbag in so many ways.